Table Of Contents
Release Notes for Administrative Reporting Tool for Release 1.1 (1)
Determining the Software Version
New Software Features for Release 1.1(1)
Call Report by Number of Calls
Traffic Report Based on Extension
Route Pattern Utilization Report
Route Group Utilization Report
QoS Parameter Report on Gateway
QoS Parameter Report on Call Type
Conference Bridge Utilization Report
Cisco IP Phone Services Report
Automatic Report Generation/ Alert Option
Important Notes for Release 1.1(1)
Factoring Time of Day into Call Cost
Obtaining Technical Assistance
Release Notes for Administrative Reporting Tool for Release 1.1 (1)
August 2, 2001
These release notes describe the new features for the Cisco Administrative Reporting Tool (ART) Release 1.1(1).
Use these release notes in conjunction with the Administrative Reporting Tool User Guide for Release 1.1(1) document, located on Cisco Connection Online (CCO) at
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/voice/sw_ap_to/admin/index.htm
Access the latest software upgrades and release notes for Administrative Reporting Tool Release 1.1(1) and Cisco CallManager 3.1(1) on Cisco Connection Online (CCO) at
http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/callmgr
Contents
These release notes discuss the following topics:
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Important Notes for Release 1.1(1)
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Introduction
ART 1.1(1), a web-based application, provides information regarding voice quality and generates reports on system performance and reports on utilization such as Gateway, RouteGroup, RouteList, RoutePattern, VoiceMail and ConferenceBridge utilization. ART provides the following reports:
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System Requirements
The following specifications apply to ART:
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Determining the Software Version
If ART Release 1.1(1) is already installed, click Details on the main ART window. The following information displays:
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If ART is not installed, right click the install executable for ART (AdministrativeReportingTool.exe); choose Properties > Version >Item Name and Product Version below Item Name.
Related Documentation
The following list shows related documentation for ART Release 1.1(1).
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New and Changed Information
New Software Features for Release 1.1(1)
ART Release 1.1(1) includes the following feature additions or changes:
Call Report by Number of Calls
Use this report to view the users who make the most calls and the destinations called most often.
Managers have access to the details for calls made from their departments while administrators can generate the report for the entire organization. You can schedule the report for auto generation on a daily and monthly basis.
Traffic Report Based on Extension
This report provides the traffic pattern for one or more selected extensions based on call types and the date range. The report shows the details of calls grouped by the selected call types. It generates reports on hourly, day-of-the-week and day-of- the-month basis. When more than one extension is selected, the report shows cumulative sum for all these extensions.
CDR Search on Gateways
This report shows the details of CDR records from the Cisco CallManager database sorted on gateways. The user interface allows the administrator to select the gateways based on the gateway types or on route pattern/list /group to which it belongs.
QoS Detail
QoS detail reports on the voice quality grades achieved for calls. Administrators use this to inspect the performance of the Cisco CallManager for various manager groups or for the entire organization.
Gateway Detail
Gateway details report provides information on the performance of the various gateways in the enterprise. Administrators can select the gateways based on the gateway types or on route pattern /list /group it belongs to.
Gateway Utilization Report
This report allows you to get the gateway utilization information for the gateways selected in the specified date range. The report shows a graphical pattern on gateway utilization. The administrator can generate reports on hourly, day-of-the-week, and day-of-the-month basis. The report can be scheduled for auto generation on a weekly basis.
Route Pattern Utilization Report
This report allows you to get the route pattern utilization information in the specified date range. The report shows a graphical pattern on route pattern utilization. The administrator can generate reports on hourly, day-of-the-week, and day-of-the-month basis. The report can be scheduled for auto generation on a weekly basis.
Route List Utilization Report
This report allows you to get the route list utilization information in the specified date range. The report shows a graphical pattern on list utilization. The administrator can generate reports on hourly, day of the week and day of the month basis. The report can be scheduled for auto generation on a weekly basis.
Route Group Utilization Report
This report allows you to get the route group utilization information in the specified date range. The report shows a graphical pattern on group utilization. The administrator can generate reports on hourly, day of the week, and day of the month basis.
QoS Parameter Report on Gateway
This report allows you to view records based on QoS parameters of jitter, latency, and lost packets. The user can select QoS parameter range, gateways, and date range, and the report contains one graph for each of the gateways selected. Each graph in the report gives statistics on the percentage of the calls that lie within the specified QoS parameter range and date range, which used that gateway. It generates reports on hourly, day-of-the-week and day-of-the-month basis.
QoS Parameter Report on Call Type
This report allows you to view records based on QoS parameters of jitter, latency, and lost packets. The user can select QoS parameter range, call types, and date range, and the report contains one graph for each of the call types selected. Each graph in the report gives statistics on the percentage of the calls of that particular call type, which lie within the specified QoS parameter range and date range. It generates reports on hourly, day-of-the-week and day-of-the-month basis sorted on call types.
Voice Mail Utilization Report
This report provides the functionality to get the voice mail utilization information in the date range specified. The report shows bar chart pattern on voice mail port utilization, and the administrator can generate reports on hourly, day-of-the-week and day-of-the-month basis. You can schedule this report for generation on weekly basis. ART will do a sampling on the records and estimate the maximum concurrent users using all the voice-mail devices configured. ART will then get the maximum ports available (sum of ports of all voice-mail devices) and provide the percent utilization. The report can be scheduled for auto generation on a weekly basis.
Conference Bridge Utilization Report
This report allows you to get the conference bridge utilization information in the date range specified. The report shows stacked bar chart pattern on conference device utilization, and the administrator can generate reports on hourly, day-of-the-week and day-of-the-month basis.
Erroneous CDR Records Report
This report gives the percentage of erroneous CDR records for the total CDR records processed, the number of CDR records processed, and the number of erroneous CDR records. The report also gives the division of the erroneous CDR records into different error conditions along with the descriptions for the same.
Cisco IP Phone Services Report
The administrator, who is provided with the list of services set up in the system and the administrators can select the services for which the administrator needs to generate this report. The report shows the service name, number of subscribers, and percentage subscription for each selected services.
Loading of CDR
Use the CDR load window to set time for execution of loader process. It also allows the administrator to specify the intervals at which CDR records must be loaded as well as the duration of each loader process. The administrator can also specify the time range for the uninhibited run of the loader. During the uninhibited loading time, the loader loads records irrespective of the duration. This loading process continues until the end of uninhibited time or until no more records need to be loaded. Users can enable of disable CDR loading.
Gateway Configuration
The gateway configuration window allows the user to set the area codes for gateways defined in Cisco CallManager and the max number of ports for each gateway. ART requires this information for classifying calls.
Database Purge
Manual database purge window allows the user to purge records in some tables of CDR and ART database. On this window, the user can specify the database name and the corresponding table name in that database, whose records the user wants to purge. User can delete the records from CDR table in the CDR database and can also delete records from billing data table, error log table, and purge history table of ART database. If the user chooses to delete records from CDR records table in CDR database, ART automatically purges the associated CMR records in CallDetailRecordDiagnostic. The user can view the number of records, as well as the date of the oldest, and latest record in the preceding tables. On the screen, the user can specify the date prior to which all the records are to be purged. According to the user input, ART deletes the records from the respective table. Enabling the ART database purge by age, would delete the billing records loaded into the ART database older than the age specified for the ART purging. Default sets ART purging to disabled and the age to 60 days. Enabling the CDR database purge by age deletes the CDR and CMR records in the CDR database that are older than the age specified for the CDR purging. Default sets the CDR purging to disabled and the age to 180 days.
Automatic Report Generation/ Alert Option
Automatic Report Generation /Alert Option window allows the user to configure pregeneration and mailing of reports. It gives the user the functionality to control the database alerts mailing, QoS notification, and Charge Limit Notifications. This required feature allows the functionality to be customized based on the size of the enterprise.
Dial Plan Support
ART supports all dial plans, but the administrator needs to configure the parameters on the DialPlan Configuration window in case the administrator wants a dial plan other than NANP is desired. The administrator can specify the values of toll free numbers. ART uses the toll free numbers to classify calls as Others. If the administrator chooses not to update these values after ART installation, ART classifies all calls as per NANP dial plan. Administrator needs to provide the Condition, Number of digits, and Pattern when configuring for a call type. For Pattern, ART identifies some wildcard.
X - For a single numeral value
! - For one or more numeric values
G - For gateway area codes
T - For Toll Free numbers
Restarting Windows Services
The administrator can restart Scheduler Windows Service from the Control Center window. ART provides several system configuration windows to set system parameters. The Scheduler service reads these parameters for loading records and generating reports. If the administrator updates some scheduling parameter (date for generation of monthly reports etc.), the change comes into effect next day at 00:00:00 hrs, but when the administrator wants these changes to reflect with effect immediate, then the administrator can restart Scheduler Windows Service from this window.
Logout
The logout function ends the current session of the logged-in user and shows the Logon screen.
Important Notes for Release 1.1(1)
Installation Notes
The ART application installation occurs on a web server, and ART distribution occurs over the internet. The server installation takes place through an ART install package.
Initial User ID and Password
After you install Release 1.1(1), use the following initial values to access ART.
User ID: admin
Password: admin
Prerequisites
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The installation program checks for existence of Cisco CallManager LDAP code. If any of the software does not exist, the installation program gives an appropriate error message and aborts.
No explicit check occurs for the existence of IIS and SQL server because the presence of Cisco CallManager (Glasshouse Publisher) ensures that IIS and SQL server are present.
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The ART installation performs the following processes:
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Uninstall
Uninstall performs the following processes:
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Limitations and Restrictions
The following limits and restrictions apply for ART:
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Documentation Updates
The following section provides a documentation change that when unavailable when ART 1.1(1) documentation was released.
Corrections
The following sections contains corrections to ART 1.1(1) documentation.
Factoring Time of Day into Call Cost
Adminstrative Reporting Tool User Guide for Release 1.1(1) displays incorrect instructions in Factoring Time of Day into Call Cost on page 2-38.
You must use military time, rather than a 12-hour clock like the current instructions suggest.
The following steps display the correct instructions:
To further define the cost of calls, you can specify a multiplication factor for certain times of day. For example, if you want to charge subscribers a premium for daytime calls, you can apply a multiplication factor to the base charge/block that you specified in the Call Duration window. Use the following instructions to establish certain times of day when calls cost more.
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The Time of Day window displays.
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Click Add Row and specify the From and To time ranges, in 24-hour, minute, and second format, for the time of day ranges you want to establish.
To add rows, check the box for the row below which you want to add a new row, and click Add Rows.
The new row is added above the row you had checked and the check box is cleared.
To delete rows, check the box for the row you want to delete, and click Delete Rows.
The checked row is deleted.
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The time of day ranges and multiplication factors have been established. Changes take effect at midnight. You can force the change to take effect immediately by stopping and restarting the ART Scheduler service. See Starting or Stopping the ART Scheduler, for more information.
Uninhibited Loading of CDR
Administrative Reporting Tool User Guide for Release 1.1(1) displays incorrect instructions in Chapter 2 on page 2-12 in the "Setting the CDR Load Schedule" section.
The correct table information appears below:
Setting the CDR Load Schedule
By default, CDR data is loaded every day from midnight to 5 a.m. You can customize the loading schedule using the following instructions.
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Uninhibited loading allows you to set a time during which CDR data will load continuously. It will not load CDR data automatically in the duration specified, it will load CDR data uninhibited in the specified duration only if loading starts at that duration as per settings done in load CDR and CMR area. So if loading starts at uninhibited loading interval, it will continue to the end of uninhibited loading interval plus the duration field set in the load CDR and CMR area. Uninhibited loading takes precedence over any values set for scheduled loading. If you do not want uninhibited loading of CDR data, set the From and To values at 00:00.
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ART will load CDR data based on the time, interval, and duration you have specified. Changes take effect at midnight. You can force the change to take effect immediately by stopping and restarting the ART Scheduler service
Obtaining Documentation
The following sections provides different methods of obtaining documentation.
World Wide Web
You can access the most current Cisco documentation on the World Wide Web at the following sites:
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Documentation CD-ROM
Cisco documentation and additional literature are available in a CD-ROM package, which ships with your product. The Documentation CD-ROM is updated monthly and may be more current than printed documentation. The CD-ROM package is available as a single unit or as an annual subscription.
Ordering Documentation
Registered CCO users can order the Documentation CD-ROM and other Cisco Product documentation through our online Subscription Services at http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/subcat/kaojump.cgi.
Nonregistered CCO users can order documentation through a local account representative by calling Cisco's corporate headquarters (California, USA) at 408 526-4000 or, in North America, call 800 553-NETS (6387).
Obtaining Technical Assistance
Cisco provides Cisco Connection Online (CCO) as a starting point for all technical assistance. Warranty or maintenance contract customers can use the Technical Assistance Center. All customers can submit technical feedback on Cisco documentation using the web, e-mail, a self-addressed stamped response card included in many printed docs, or by sending mail to Cisco.
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Cisco.com provides a broad range of features and services to help customers and partners streamline business processes and improve productivity. Through Cisco.com, you can find information about Cisco and our networking solutions, services, and programs. In addition, you can resolve technical issues with online technical support, download and test software packages, and order Cisco learning materials and merchandise. Valuable online skill assessment, training, and certification programs are also available.
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To access Cisco.com, go to the following website:
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Technical Assistance Center
The Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) is available to warranty or maintenance contract customers who need technical assistance with a Cisco product that is under warranty or covered by a maintenance contract.
To display the TAC web site that includes links to technical support information and software upgrades and for requesting TAC support, use www.cisco.com/techsupport.
To contact by e-mail, use one of the following addresses:
In North America, TAC can be reached at 800 553-2447 or 408 526-7209. For other telephone numbers and TAC e-mail addresses worldwide, consult the following web site: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/687/Directory/DirTAC.shtml.
Documentation Feedback
If you are reading Cisco product documentation on the World Wide Web, you can submit technical comments electronically. Click Feedback in the toolbar and select Documentation. After you complete the form, click Submit to send it to Cisco.
You can e-mail your comments to bug-doc@cisco.com.
To submit your comments by mail, for your convenience many documents contain a response card behind the front cover. Otherwise, you can mail your comments to the following address:
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